HILLSBOROUGH - A Farm Road resident has been charged with making and possessing child pornography.

Rolando Miranda, 38, was charged with first-degree manufacturing child pornography, third-degree endangering the welfare of a child and third-degree possession of child pornography, according to Somerset County Prosecutor Michael Robertson.

The investigation began after the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office received information from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that Miranda was engaging in sexually explicit online conversations with a minor, Robertson said.

The Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations/Computer Crimes Unit's investigation found that Miranda was using multiple social media accounts to engage in sexually explicit conversations and to secure sexually explicit images/videos of children under the age of 18, the prosecutor said.

At about 6 a.m. Monday, detectives from the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office and the Hillsborough Township Police department, along with FBI special agents, executed a search warrant at Miranda’s Hillsborough residence.

As a result of the search, multiple digital devices were seized for further computer forensic examination, Robertson said.

Miranda was lodged in the Somerset County Jail pending a detention hearing.